UK-based CNG Fuels, in partnership with National Grid, has unveiled a new state-of-the-art filling station in Leyland, Lancashire, allowing vehicles to fill up on compressed natural gas (CNG) directly from the high-pressure local transmission system. The new facility is the first of its kind ...

The UK has around 10,000 km of 30 bar pipelines that is located close to around 90% of distribution depots, it provides a great low GHG opportunity, especially coupled with OEM produced dedicated CNG trucks like the Scania.
The U.K. Biomethane market represents an additional benefit. There will be around 3 TWh of gas injected into the gas grid in the next year, that is equal to 200 million kg of CNG. Assume a 4 X 2 tractor does 140, 000 km a year, that will use around 40,000 kg of CNG ...so enough biomethane to fuel 5,000 HGVs......a good start......if we assume each truck has 15% biomethane (as per EU renewable targets) then we can fuel around 33,000 trucks with 15% biomethane blend. That's a good start.

UK-based CNG Fuels, in partnership with National Grid, has unveiled a new state-of-the-art filling station in Leyland, Lancashire, allowing vehicles to fill up on compressed natural gas (CNG) directly from the high-pressure local transmission system. The new facility is the first of its kind ...

In 2014, light-, medium-, and heavy-duty natural gas vehicle (NGV) production/sales in the US totaled just over 18,000 vehicles, down 6.5% from 2013, according to NGVAmerica’s 2014 NGV Production/Sales Report. The report is based on the organization’s annual survey of OEMs and approved aftermark...

Where does all that waste come from? If it's local authority waste - which it sounds like - then they have to tender for its disposal and it is likely to go to Energy from Waste plants?
Without the waste, no project
It looks a bit theoretical, was first announced in 2010, with operation in 2014...
Let's see the waste, then we can move it from the PR for aeroplane industry tray to the real tray

A core group of airlines has signed letters of intent with Solena Fuels, LLC for a future supply of jet fuel derived exclusively from biomass to be produced in northern California. Solena’s “GreenSky California” biomass-to-liquids (BTL) facility in Northern California (Santa Clara County) will u...

This is possible but not a good idea. Methane is a perfect vehicle fuel, CNG or LNG
Conveying it to a liquid is a waste of energy,,..it's like going from LA to New York by travelling west. Possible but why would you do it?
Why melt down gold to make tin?

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) has issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement (DE-FOA-0000881) for up to $20 million to fund the development of bioconversion technologies to convert methane into liquid fuels. (Earlier post.) This program...

There are methane leaks in gas distribution networks that are reducing slowly as old cast iron mains are replaced with plastic. But these are fixed, same for any throughput.
So additional gas demand does not add any more leaks.
Shale gas is a very good source of gas as there are minimal leaks - for obvious reasons, the gas is valuable and the nature of the process means there are no opportunities for leaks
We are entering a Golden Age for gas and if we can have CCS - Coal Can Stayunderground in China and India we have a chance of saving the planet. Europe must stop its mad dash for coal generation and follow the US with great investment in gas, wind and solar.

Consumption-based power mixes and NG transmission distances by Chinese province in 2010. Credit: ACS, Huo et al. Click to enlarge. A province-by-province life cycle analysis of natural gas and electric vehicles by a team from Tsinghua University concludes that while, from the perspective of ...

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The CNG tanks are on the CNG car, as VW Eco Up! at 79 g/km. Gas is taken directly from the grid and into the vehicle, no storage at the home.
The Eco Up! has been given the award of Germany's most environmentally friendly car. The Verkehrsclub Deutschland (VCD) — Transport Association Germany — awarded five stars and overall first place for 2012/2013 to the VW eco up!
With home fill needs a compressor to run approx 30 hours per week for annual miles of 15,000 - to save co2 it is best to select the 30 hours at times of high renewable elec production and low elec demand. Solar also a great source. Of course can also run on fossil generated electricity but that should just be back-up. The VW Up! also runs on petrol, range around 500 miles
Because of the existing gas grid, if you do the full well to wheels of CNG home fill using wind for electricity and highly economical VW Up! it is much lower than using gas to make h2 for fuelling a car.
H2 is very good to use surplus electricity but it is very inefficient if made from NG as the conversion process is far too wasteful in energy terms
Of course the idea is to make Biomethane, inject it into the gas grid and take it out at the home fill device. More than 200 CNG stations in Germany now offer this, very low carbon, very efficient
It is incredibly exciting to see cars such as the Up! I have waited 15 years for cars to be designed specifically for CNG and we now have them and they are fantastic. The old range issue with CNG has completely gone away due to the efficiency strides which means a large CNG tank is not required.
We are entering a Golden Age for gas and it is a fantastic opportunity for the planet, to reduce global warming, displace coal and oil and support renewables.

Biggest investments in powertrain technologies over next five years. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge. Global auto executives have cooled a bit on the prospects for e-mobility, with a majority of automakers from both developed and emerging markets believing that internal combustion engines (I...

Electric Vehicles have had their time in the sun, they had a good run.
Who Killed The Electric car? Why the small diesel and petrol hybrid did.
The energy efficiency of new internal combustion engines is very good and coupled with hybridisation, there is no space for EVs.
What will win in the end? The CNG hybrid of course, filled at night with gas at home using home fill compressors that chug away overnight on the days of the week that the wind is blowing. Only fill up 2 x a week so just do it on windy nights.
So, utlises the wind for compression that could have charged EV batteries but in a way that allows complete 100% displacement of diesel/petrol as no range issue anymore on CNG (as they hardly use any fuel)
The fact that UK has >200 years worth of gas under Lancashire etc helps as well.
Sorry Qatar, sorry Saudi Arabia, sell your fuel to someone else please.
I cant wait for the US home fill devices that are being funded by Obama (you got to admire the US Govt – they funded the shale gas technology breakthrough and are now funding home fill CNG. We would call it joined up thinking)
We are in a Golden Age for natural gas and I haven't even mentioned biomethane which is what we work in!

Biggest investments in powertrain technologies over next five years. Source: KPMG. Click to enlarge. Global auto executives have cooled a bit on the prospects for e-mobility, with a majority of automakers from both developed and emerging markets believing that internal combustion engines (I...

Converting methane to liquid fuels is possible but why would you do it? Its like going from Los Angeles to New York by travelling west, possible but pointless.
Far better to use the methane for all transportation in CNG/LNG vehicles..if you do this, there is no shortage of oil for chemicals and other things where oil is needed.
By 2030 most vehicles should and will run on natural gas, thanks to shale gas

Calysta is using its proprietary BioGTL biological gas-to-liquids platform to convert natural gas to liquid hydrocarbons. Click to enlarge. Start-up Calysta Energy plans to use methane as a feedstock for engineered organisms to produce liquid hydrocarbon fuels and high value chemicals that ...

Gas fuelled vehicles starting to be sold in significant numbers, over 110,000 in Italy in July, 11 per cent of new vehicle sales....
http://www.ngvglobal.com/fiat-natural-gas-vehicle-sales-strong-while-auto-market-declines-in-italy-0925#more-23198
So it is possible to move from petrol and diesel to gas, in due course changing methane to hydrogen may be viable.....if its not, then as long as the methane made from waste via digestion or gasification or from H2 to CH4 processes, then we have pathway to carbon free transport

Ranges of automotive fuel cell system costs at mass manufactured volume using technology from three UK companies supported by the Carbon Trust. Source: Carbon Trust. Click to enlarge. A new report released by the UK’s Carbon Trust concludes that with a continued focus on technology innovati...

While BMW is pushing toward the electrification of its vehicles in the long term, it still sees great potential for conventional engines. The company says, therefore, that in the medium term, the internal combustion engine will remain the BMW Group’s underlying technology and will thus power bo...

There are no adverse issues with fracking....the US coal industry is trying to find things wrong with it but there is nothing and this is becoming clear
Sorry coal industry, you are finished
Natural gas as vehicle fuel gives very high overall well to wheel efficiency, much higher than using gas to make hydrogen

B200 Natural Gas Drive. Click to enlarge. Mercedes-Benz will stage the debut of the new B 200 Natural Gas Drive member of the B-Class family at the upcoming Paris Motor Show (27 September to 14 October 2012). In natural gas mode, consumption of the 115 kW (156 hp) B 200 Natural Gas Drive ...

In UK there is leakage out of low pressure gas pipelines. These were built pre 1960 and around 0.5% of the methane leaks out. The grid is progressivly being replaced with new plastic pipes. However, the leakage is not related to throughput. So adding CNG vehicles does not increase the leakage.
In practice, CNG stations are usually fed from higher pressure grids that are newer, steel, do not leak at all....so what this study is saying is that there should be investment in replacing leaking pipelines in the domestic heating market. No argument with that, but this has nothing to do with CNG for vehicles which reduces CO2 with NO increase in leaks of methane.

Percentage of consumers having extremely or very favorable views of 13 clean energy technologies, 2009-2011. Data: Pike Research. Click to enlarge. According to a new survey from Pike Research, general consumer support for clean energy concepts—ranging from renewable energy to alternative f...

Meanwhile, Pike Research expects that remote sensing will be the breakout market for small fuel cells in 2012, as they are well-suited for applications including dam monitoring, seismic monitoring, wildlife monitoring, weather stations, and others
Has it come to this? The fuel cell is well suited to Wildlife monitoring? Probably a good application....clearly hydrogen fuel cells RIP as a way of helping provide energy for cars.....
By the way, what happened to the Honda FCX - this article from 2005 - 7 years later?
http://www.greencarcongress.com/hsub2sub/index.html
Maybe the Honda FCX can be used as a weather station and to monitor wildlife?

The total size of the global hydrogen and fuel cell market—including revenues from fuel cells and from hydrogen for fuel cells and internal combustion engines (ICEs)—will reach $785 million in 2012, according to a new white paper from Pike Research. The white paper describes ten key trends fo...

GTL starts off as natural gas. So the comparison should be with exporting LNG and using LNG in dual fuel LNG-diesel trucks or making CNG and using in the Passat Ecofuel. If you do that, the GTL pathway is around 30% worse in CO2 terms.
GTL is like going from Los Angeles to New York by going west. You can do it, but its not the best idea.

But thankfully hardly anyone is buying electric cars because they do nothing to reduce CO2 compared to using the £5,000 subsidy for something that does reduce CO2 - like insulating homes........in UK, EV's are not as low CO2 as a low emission diesel or petrol hybrid because all the extra electricity to charge them comes from gas and coal...

Map of Electric Highway (Phase 1). Click to enlarge. Ecotricity has opened new charging points on the M4 and M42 highways in the UK as part of the first national charging network, linking Birmingham and Bristol to London. The Electric Highway now has charging points at Welcome Break services...

EU MARGINAL elec generation is much higher because it is gas or coal, at least twice as high as 235 kg CO2 per MWh
EVs in EU make no sense because of the growing dependence on gas and, in Germany, coal.

MIT and the IEA both have newly released reports exploring the potential for and impact of a major expansion in global usage of natural gas, given the current re-evaluation of global supplies. (Earlier post.) Although the reports both focus strongly on the increased use of natural gas in power g...

BMW 1 Series, Sport and Urban Line. Click to enlarge. BMW is equipping its second-generation 1 Series with gasoline and diesel engines all of which feature new BMW TwinPower Turbo technology. The 1 Series will have a new generation of 1.6-liter gasoline engines: 116i with 100 kW/136 hp; and ...

With 900 CNG filling stations in Germany, makes much more sense to run vehicles directly on natural gas if they are designed for gas (smaller engine, turbo, supercharger, low CO2)
http://www.ngvaeurope.eu/european-ngv-statistics
The NGVs like the Passat Ecofuel can also run on petrol if they are going in an area with no CNG. There is no point in H2 vehicles unless there is a surplus of nuclear/renewables and there clearly is not going to be that in Germany for a very long time.

Daimler and The Linde Group are pressing ahead with the development of an infrastructure for hydrogen-powered fuel-cell vehicles. Over the coming three years, the two companies plan to construct an additional 20 hydrogen filling stations in Germany. The initiative links in with the existing H2 M...

LNG is useful for long trips but CNG ideals for depot based back to base trips, Can get 500km range on CNG in 4 x 2 tractor which is enough.
Also, biomethane injected into the gas grid at the Anaerobic Digester plant and taken out at the distribution depot as CNG is perfect.

Engine installation D13C-gas. Click to enlarge. Volvo Trucks is expanding its alternative fuel program with the launch of the new dual-fuel Volvo FM MethaneDiesel. This makes Volvo the first truck manufacturer in Europe to offer gas-powered regional distribution trucks that can also meet lon...

From Jan 2010
According to Pike Research, which is a marketing and consulting firm in the green tech field that offers in-depth analysis on a wide variety of alternative energy subjects, there will be 2.8 million fuel cell vehicles on the roads by the year 2020.
So their forecast has fallen from 2.8 million to 1 million in the last 15 months. Maybe next year it will be 10,000 which will be more accurate!

Fuel cell light-duty vehicles sales, 2015-2020. Source: Pike Research. Click to enlarge. According to a new report from Pike Research, commercial sales of fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) will reach the key milestone of 1 million vehicles by 2020, with a cumulative 1.2 million vehicles sold by the e...

Methodology is not correct. The EV uses marginal electricity (coal or gas) and not grid average. So the CO2 level is a lot higher than this.
UK minimum electricity demand is 24 GW. Max zero CO2 (wind, hydro, biomass, nuclear) is around 14 GW. So the extra electricity always comes from coal and gas. This is much higher than the average.

The average emissions for an electric vehicle in the UK are 75 gCO2/km, when CO2 emissions at the power station are taken into account, according to an analysis by Gary Davis, Operations Director and chief greenhouse gas (GHG) analyst at Edinburgh-based carbon accounting firm Ecometrica. This is...